Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

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The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.

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One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever.

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You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession.

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Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government.

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Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear.

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The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

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More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.

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You never observe a great intellectual movement in Europe in which the
Jews do NOT greatly participate. The first Jesuits were Jews.

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Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon.

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The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.

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A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

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It [the revelation of chaos] is treated scientifically; everything is explained by geology and astronomy, and in that way. It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing can be so pretty! A cluster of vapour, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light,

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The mystery of mysteries is to view machines making machines.

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Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

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A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.

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In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.

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A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.

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A machine is a slave that neither brings nor bears degradation.

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I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.

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Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.

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You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

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As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

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Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man.

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A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.

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Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.

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No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

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